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I recently wrote a blog post entitled health care, Obama, And The Natural Health And Wellness Solution discussing how in light of the medical care debate and the astronomic health care cost that have led to that debate, that alternative practitioners as well as conventional doctors that use alternative approaches should be given more freedom to practice.

I pointed out the fact that I don't believe that the current suggested medicare plan will help, in part, as it does nothing about the most imperative issue, and that's the expense of the currently recognized treatments employed for our most deadly and devitalizing diseases ; in addition, it may actually, in time, prohibit more medical liberties.
On the other hand I also pointed out that those who advocate the free market approach to medical care largely will help frame laws or sit idly by while laws are framed which will restrict their choice to pick an alternative specialist if they select to do so.
This would permit more competition into the market and help drive cost down. However as i said in the article cited above there are those that are really not especially interested in free market solutions, but rather slick paths to monopolize the market which they have just done.
That leads me to the crux of this post...

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According to the North County Times Prosecutors latterly brought legal charges against a California family doctor charged with promising terminally ill cancer patients that they may be cured with an herbal treatment. According to reports, Dr Christine Daniel, using her influence as an ordained Pentecostal minister tapped into the vessel of religion to lure folk from across the land to try her regimen.
The reports indicate that she even appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 2002 recommending her cancer cure and its sixty percent success rate, according to federal investigators. Authorities arrested Daniel, fifty five, at her San Fernando Valley home in October and charged her with 2 counts each of wire and mail crime. If found guilty, she is facing up to 80 years in jail.
In all, Fed. prosecutors announced Daniel siphoned about $1.1 million from 50 five families between 2001 and 2004. At least 6 patients varying in age from four to sixty-nine died inside 7 months after seeing Daniel is what's being claimed. 'This is an example of a doctor who is preying on the most vulnerable people in our society,' expounded helper U.S. Lawyer, Joseph Johns. He also declared [*CO]'These patients were told they were being cured, but they were being eaten alive by cancer.'.
A telephone message left for Daniel's attorney, Manuel Miller, wasn't returned right away. Prosecutors claimed Daniel concocted a cure known, among other names, as'C-Extract' that she revealed would help treat cancer and other afflictions like multiple sclerosis, hepatitis, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's illnesses.

Some of her patients were drawn to her from her appearance on TBN's'Praise the Lord.' according to a North County Times article. The article claims that Daniel told spectators she picked up herbs from around the world, and, when they were mixed with prayer, there had been a good chance their cancer might be cured.
How Many die of Chemo?
Though not all is understood concerning the events that besieged the patients of Dr. Daniel ( therefore I am neither for or against her particular treatment/s ) one has to ask if in truth her patients were terminally unwell what was the chance that they would have lived with traditional treatments and if those treatments were shown to hasten their death would the suppliers also have been arrested?
As an example the BBC news carried a story in Nov of 2008 of a study that discovered in'a review of 600 cancer patients who died inside 30 days of treatment discovered that in more than a quarter of cases it essentially hastened or caused death.
The report by the national confidential Enquiry into Patient result and Death said doctors should think about reducing doses or not using chemotherapy at all... The group of patients the independent group was having a look at represents 2% of the 80,000 folk who receive chemotherapy each year.'
The study'found that in 27% of cases it hastened or caused death - the dangerous nature of the treatment can cause a variety of Problems, the most serious of which is an infection called neutropenic sepsis.'
Now that study looked at only a relatively small amount of people that actually receive chemotherapy so one might imagine just how many people are expiring from the medicine and yet a GP that attempts to use an alternative approach is arrested and charged.

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